WORLDVIEWS
- Damian Lilly
- • March 17, 2022
In 2019, the independent inquiry into the United Nations’ response to the Rohingya crisis, which drove 750,000 refugees from Myanmar’s Rakhine state into Bangladesh in 2017, found “systemic and structural failures.” UN Secretary-General António Guterres accepted all the findings…
- Categories: Human Rights, Myanmar, WORLDVIEWS
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • March 15, 2022
It is long overdue for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to intervene more forcefully in Russia’s war on Ukraine and use his good offices to try to forge a cease-fire and work out a final settlement on this nightmarish…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Sarah Copland
- • March 14, 2022
The flying glass was the first thing I saw when the Port of Beirut exploded on Aug. 4, 2020. I was thrown to the ground, and my body, heavily pregnant, was riddled with shards from our shattered window. A…
- Categories: Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Yasmine Ergas
- • March 9, 2022
Mothers appeal to mothers. Who doesn’t understand the power of women speaking to women about fear for their children? We listen as young women — parliamentarians, government ministers — who are staying to defend their country and denounce the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Peace and Security, WORLDVIEWS
- Yasuhiro Ueki
- • March 7, 2022
Russia’s unprovoked military attack on Ukraine meets the definition of “act of aggression,” as defined by the International Criminal Court. The Rome Statute, which is the legal basis of the ICC, states in its Article 8 bis 2 that…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Mark Malloch-Brown
- • February 28, 2022
Putin’s decision to send Russian troops into Ukraine was a flagrant breach of the most fundamental rules of interstate relationships. It was not only an unprovoked attack against an independent sovereign nation, and by an unfree country on a…
- Categories: General Assembly, Peace and Security, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Sally Anne Corcoran
- • February 15, 2022
As girls are being sold in the streets of Kabul, the Norwegian government flew in the Taliban and people from Afghan civil society into Oslo to talk to one another and with Western diplomats. While United Nations agencies have…
- Categories: Asia, Peace and Security, WORLDVIEWS
- Richard Ponzio  and Jerry Zhang
- • February 9, 2022
Within year one, the Biden administration rejoined the Paris Agreement and Human Rights Council, re-engaged with the World Health Organization, accelerated support of the Covax operation and took steps to strengthen United Nations peacekeeping and nuclear nonproliferation regimes. Equally…
- Categories: Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • January 25, 2022
President Joe Biden has brought back an era of diplomatic normalcy to the United Nations in his first year in office. After the often-raucous and unpredictable four years of the Trump administration’s relations with the UN, Biden and his…
- Categories: Security Council, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Joseph Alfred Grinblat
- • January 3, 2022
Maha Fayek died on Jan. 5, 2021. She was one of the most wonderful persons I have ever known, and I miss her very much. She spent her life fighting for justice, without any fear of the consequences for…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Geraldine Byrne Nason
- • December 30, 2021
This was a year like no other globally, and so it was at the United Nations Security Council. In May, we grappled with an eruption of violence in Gaza. In August, we watched with dismay as Kabul fell to…
- Categories: Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Ali Kabugo
- • December 29, 2021
KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda has one of the largest population of children in the world. Out of 37 million people in our country, 56 percent are under 18 years old and slightly more than half of those are under…
- Categories: Africa, WORLDVIEWS
- Deborah Baldwin
- • December 22, 2021
It says something about a people’s thirst for delicacies when le tout Paris is elbow to elbow at the foie gras stand, under the stars, on one of the darkest, coldest nights of the year. Wouldn’t it be easier…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Max-Otto Baumann
- • December 8, 2021
The reform of the United Nations development system has been a key project of Secretary-General António Guterres’s first term. Bold changes were planned to reposition the system to meet the needs of the 2030 Agenda — the Sustainable Development…
- Categories: Development, WORLDVIEWS
- Nang Moet Moet
- • November 24, 2021
Nine months ago, Myanmar witnessed the demise of what was still the beginning of a slow transition to a democracy. In the early morning hours of Feb. 1, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing and his fellow generals seized power…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
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